About Make it a Garden Magazine
The purpose of Makeitagarden.com (a site owned by Kristen Spencer) is to present ideas and helpful information to inspire and encourage readers to create backyard or garden spaces that are interesting and inviting places to spend time.
This is done through written content, photos and DIY craft projects. This website is intended for personal enjoyment and informational purposes only. Using any of the ideas or engaging in any of the projects presented is entirely at your own risk.
Opinions and views expressed on this blog are purely the author’s own. I love and appreciate my readers. Therefore, it’s my goal to operate this site ethically and conscientiously. That my passion for art and garden shines through with every post I write. However, any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider of a service.
How I earn my living
I earn my living as a blogger. Understandably, there are a number of costs associated with running a blog like this— server space, technical tools (that allow my web site to operate smoothly or have certain functions), security and more. To offset these costs, I may host advertisements, use affiliate links to products or create sponsored content. SEE Section on Advertising.
I may also author an e-book or sell my own products.
The Make it a Garden web site is governed by the following Privacy Policy:
PRIVACY POLICY
I respect and highly regard your privacy and am committed to protecting it. Therefore, the purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information I may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website: www.makeitagarden.com. It may be changed/updated at anytime by the owner of the page.
WHAT INFORMATION DO I COLLECT AND HOW IS IT USED?
Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: I/Make it a Garden may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form.
Information I Collect from Others: I/Make it a Garden may receive information about you from other sources. You may link your Facebook, Instagram, and/or Google accounts to your user profile. If you choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, and/or Google accounts to your user profile, I will receive your name, email address and profile picture associated with that account. This Website utilizes the Facebook commenting system, so if you choose to comment on a Website post, your profile picture will appear.
Automatically-Collected Information: I/Make it a Garden automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, the system I use will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked. (See section below titled: How Your Information May Be Used)
Cookies: I may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. I may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Make it a Garden Website. Any site with affiliate links and advertisement will be using cookies.
HOW YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE USED
I/Make it a Garden may use the information collected in the following ways:
- To operate and maintain the Website;
- To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
- To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
- To respond to your comments or inquiries;
- To provide you with user support;
- To track and measure advertising on the Website;
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.
THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
I may share your information with third parties ONLY when you explicitly authorize me to share your information.
Except when required by law, I will NOT ever, at any time for any reason, sell, distribute, or reveal your e-mail addresses or other personal information without your consent. However, as it pertains to any future acquisition, I may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of this business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of these assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.
Additionally, this Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.
The Make it a Garden Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:
Google Analytics – this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but NO other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.
Mailerlite – this service is used for delivery of e-mail updates and newsletters. I/Make it a Garden store your name and e-mail address for the purpose(s) of delivering such communications. Please refer to Mailerlite’s privacy policy for further information.
Your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time at the Website’s sole discretion.
ANONYMOUS DATA
From time to time, I may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
PUBLICLY VISIBLE INFORMATION
If you leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible. But your e-mail address will never be available to be viewed publicly. At your option, you may also add an avatar, a profile description, and a link to your website.
You may also choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, and Google Account.
Users may see your username, avatar, profile description and website information.
COOKIES
The Make it a Garden Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly seeing the same banner ads. To customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of this Website may be entirely usable.
ADVERTISING
Use of advertising on this site is necessary to help off-set the many maintenance costs associated with operating a web site. Thus, the ads allow us to keep our web site functioning so I/Make it a Garden can continue to provide useful and enjoyable content.
Display Ads
I may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies, as noted above.
Retargeting Ads
From time to time, this Website may engage in re-marketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.
Affiliate Program Participation
This Website may (at some point in the future) engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions. The Make it a Garden site is not currently involved in affiliate marketing.
NEWSLETTERS
On the Website, you may subscribe to my newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows for an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links (if any) within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.
RIGHTS RELATED TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify me at Kristen@makeitagarden.com to be removed from our mailing list.
Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to Kristen@makeitagarden.com.
Amend – You may contact us at Kristen@makeitagarden.com to amend or update your personal information.
Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to Kristen@makeitagarden.com.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION
At no time should you submit sensitive, personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
CHILDREN’S INFORMATION
The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at kristen@makeitagarden.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from my records.
CONTACT INFORMATION
At any time, please contact us at kristen@makeitagarden.com for questions related to this Privacy Policy.
This privacy policy was last updated: June 3, 2019.
COMMENT POLICY
Be kind and be genuine. Please respect one another, regardless of who, where, or what level our various skills are at. This is not the place for criticisms or negativity. We are in this together to help and encourage one another!
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
CONTENT & PHOTO POLICY
You are welcome and encouraged to link to Makeitagarden.com.
Content: Republishing posts in their entirety is strictly prohibited.
Photo: I permit use of a single image with a brief description to link back to any post. Feel free to pin on Pinterest.
DISCLOSURE POLICY
The Federal Trade Commission {FTC} revised their guidelines regarding endorsements and testimonials in order to protect the public from any intentionally errant or misleading advertising that has been paid for by a group or company. Since the Make it a garden Blog is a source of income and may occasionally incorporate endorsements or testimonials, I felt it was important to disclose the following to you, my readers:
- The content of the Makeitagarden blog is a source of income for me and therefore may be used to promote products, services, or other businesses at my sole discretion.
- I will attempt to the degree I am able, to choose to promote products/services/businesses that I have, in fact, used and that I feel will be beneficial to you the reader. I feel very strongly about this. I prefer to have experience with a product/service/business before I personally recommend it.
- Should there be opportunity in the future (as the blog grows) to receive products provided by my advertising partners for my review, know that this will not automatically ensure a positive review of such product.
- You can trust me. I will always give my genuine opinion about a product or service whether or not I am partnering with the service provider and/or receiving payment to do so.
- Honesty is my number one priority for accuracy and fairness to my readers. I would never compromise the truth just to make a buck. Ever. It’s just not right. It’s not worth it to me and it’s not fair to you.
- Mentions of associated products/services/businesses within the content of my blog may or may not be noted as an affiliate in every reference.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on November 13, 2019 by Make it a Garden.
